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Poster published at ECRD focuses on radioligand therapy in neuroendocrine neoplasms
The Health Policy Partnership has published a poster at the 10th European Conference on Rare Diseases & Orphan Products (ECRD), which took place online on 14–15 May 2020.
The poster, published under theme three of the conference, Share, Care, Rare: Transforming care for rare diseases by 2030, was co-authored by members of the radioligand therapy project's multi-stakeholder steering committee.
The poster concentrates on radioligand therapy in neuroendocrine neoplasms (NENs). It explores how to improve the availability of this treatment for people with NENs in Europe, and details the policy recommendations outlined in the report Radioligand therapy: realising the potential of targeted cancer care.
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Our second day in Legazpi City, Albay. This is the day we intend to explore places where, hopefully, we could see the full, unobstructed view of Mayon Volcano. So on this day, we started with destination number 1: Ligñon Hill Nature Park. According to many blogs I've read, Ligñon Hill is the best location to catch the breathtaking view of Mount Mayon, the City of Legazpi, the town of Daraga and the Albay Gulf.
Our plan was to hike up the hill early morning to get the best chance of seeing Mayon in its full grandeur. With this in mind, I woke up as early as 5 AM only to hear the sound of pouring rain outside. Aargh! I started to get worried of our plans being derailed. Malou was still in deep slumber so I go back to sleep. Woke up again after one hour, stepped outside the hotel and ...hallelujah! The rain has stopped! So I quickly woke up my wife and in no time, we're up and ready to hike.
From the Airport Hotel, we took a tricycle ride (50 pesos for two persons) up to the foot of Ligñon Hill where we started our walk. One good thing about going to the park early is that the entrance fee is free for joggers from 5AM-9AM. Along the way, we passed by the Japanese Tunnel, the Kapit Tuko Trail and a hanging bridge. Other outdoor activities offered in the park include zipline, binocular viewing, rappelling, paintball and ATV tour. However, lack of time and budget prevented us from trying out any of these activities.
Since Malou and I are both into running, the 30 minutes hike to the peak of Ligñon Hill was literally a "walk in the park". The cool weather plus the well-paved road also made the trek easier.
Viewing area before reaching the top. Mayon's upper half is all wrapped up.
The peak of Ligñon Hill is a well-developed park that has a souvenir shop and even a Chowking branch. Indeed, it offers the best view of Mayon Volcano standing proud over the evergreen paddy fields and coconut plantation.
We stayed in the park for about one hour and Mayon still refused to show us her full glory. Her upper half was all wrapped up in clouds which seemed to have no plans of drifting away. Over in Legazpi City, the sun is already trying to pop out. But from where we stood, we can see rain in some places. As what we've seen in the TV news the night before, low pressure would still affect Bicol Region on this day. Meaning, our chances of seeing Mayon's full glory has become a hit-or-miss affair.
Mount Mayon--still far from being picture perfect at this moment.
After taking more photos of the park and the cloud-covered Mayon Volcano, we decided to make our descent. Going down the hill was much easier and upon reaching its foot, we hailed a tricycle which took us back to the Airport Hotel.
1. From any point in Legazpi City, you can hire a tricycle going to the foot of Ligñon (pronounced as Lin-yon) Hill. Fare is 50 pesos for 2 persons. Jeepneys with Legazpi-Daraga Loop 1 route also passed by the foot of the hill.
2. General operating hours is from 8AM to 11PM daily. The park is open and free of charge for joggers from 5AM to 9AM.
4. Food and beverages are not allowed inside the park. But you can bring your own water to keep yourself hydrated during the uphill hike.
5. Make sure to wear your hiking shoes or other appropriate footwear to avoid blisters. My wife made the mistake of wearing her closed-type Crocs during our climb. Blisters forced her to walk barefoot more than half of the way upon going down.
6. If you're not up to walking uphill, you may hire a motorcycle near the park entrance to take you all the way to the peak.


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Here is Minnesota's COVID-19 update for Tuesday, June 23
Nine more people have died.
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Tuesday's COVID-19 update from the Minnesota Department of Health shows that nine more people died from the disease caused by the novel coronavirus.
Minnesota's death toll from COVID-19 is now at 1,393. Of those, 1,101 having been residents of congregate care, including six of Tuesday's newly reported fatalities.
There was a slight rise in the number of patients in the ICU, increasing by two to 158, while hospitalized patients not in the ICU rose for the second day in a row, from 176 to 181.
Hospitalizations are around half the rate they were at in mid to late-May however.
The latest 24-hour reporting period saw 7,261 tests result in 245 positives, though 3 have since been removed for an official count of 242.
Coronavirus in Minnesota by the numbers:
Tests: 520,045 (up from 513,137 )
Confirmed cases: 33,469 (up from 33,227)
Deaths: 1,393 (up from 1,384 )
Still hospitalized: 339 (up from 332)
Patients in intensive care: 158 (up from 156).
Patients no longer requiring isolation: 29,399 (up from 29,065)
There have been 32 patients deemed to have "probably" died from COVID-19, though that total isn't included in the aforementioned death toll. Those cases represent victims who never received a COVID-19 test, but for whom doctors believe within a reasonable degree of certainty that the virus caused their death.
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Building Unionism in Samoa
Union Aid Abroad-APHEDA has been working with Samoa First Union (SFU) in what has had a busy year developing and implementing organising plans across the private sector workplaces of Samoa. Supported in its establishment by Samoan members of First Union NZ in 2015, SFU also has a strong relationship with Australian unions, including the NUW, and has received financial support from global unions, the IUF and UNI Global. In addition, the Maritime International Federation (MIF) have assisted SFU with its work in the Port of Samoa.
Union membership is growing, particularly across the Hotel Industry and the tiny branch has been concentrating its efforts on recruiting and educating local workers about their rights under Samoan Industrial law and the benefits of collective activity. In 2016 they also ran their first successful legal case through the Samoan dispute resolution process and have supported members to receive adequate compensation upon redundancy when a large Samoan employer recently announced its imminent closure.
In November, Samoan Port Delegate Mavaega Mavaega was invited to participate in the Maritime Union of New Zealand (MUNZ) Quadrennial conference in Wellington where he connected with Port workers from Australia and New Zealand and other International unions from the sector. Mavaega took inspiration from the camaraderie of the regional maritime unions to continue to organise port workers, particularly around the crucial issues of OHS in the Port of Samoa. In 2016 two Samoan Port workers were killed in the workplace and an organising campaign to boost awareness and organising around safer working conditions is planned for 2017.
SFU Organisers, Michael and Rachel are led by Saina Tomi who straddles the roles of Lead Organiser and Membership Coordinator for the union. Along with ongoing planning and recruitment and formalising regular monthly executive meetings, the Organising team hold regular Saturday meetings in the union office where they educate new members about what it means to be union and what they can achieve by standing together.
SFU has also been closely engaged with the International Labor Organisation (ILO) work in the South Pacific including participation at a recent Pacific ILO Conference held in Samoa. One of the keynote speakers at this conference focused on Women's Labour Rights and attracted a lot of media around the issue of paid maternity leave. This also provided an opportunity for SFU to talk about the importance of union membership for the implementation of women's rights in the Samoan workplace and community.
Samoa First Union is affiliated to the Samoa Workers Congress which was established in 2014. SFU Organisers have represented the Samoa Workers' Congress at Pacific union conferences this year to talk about SFU's core focus on organising members in the private sector.
The MUA's Mick Doleman (second from right) and APHEDA Pacific Organiser Katie Hepworth (second from left) meet up with the Samoa First Union crew.


The Absent Sea is a seven-minute essay video shot with a Red Epic camera and was made in homage to the late Allan Sekula and Noel Burch's recent documentary The Forgotten Space (2013).
30 minutes, HD Video, colour, sound.
This is a personal essay documentary about my mother coming to Australia in the early 1940s as a teenager. The film's title with its overtones of Margeurite Duras is emblematic of the subject's ancestral and mythic roots (Piraeus and Kythera, Greece) and her migration to Australia to work in country NSW cafes for her uncles and aunts. This 'letter chain' mode of migration was the major form of migrating from Greece to Australia back then.
Miro On the Beach is a major performance video shot with a Red Epic camera and a movie crane and it depicts the artist writing the expression 'camera stylio' into the sand of a local Sydney beach.
The Nocturnal Bench is a meditative essay performance video that was primarily inspired by Bill Brandt's post-black and white photography and American film noir. In particular, Brandt's photograph of the writer Elias Canetti sitting on a park bench at Hampstead Heath has haunted me for years.
5 minutes, HD Video, black and white, sound.
The video is a distillation of many of the themes, motifs and concerns that characterise the artist's oeuvre in general. And in particular, it is autobiographically inflected like his prize winning video of 1997 Autumn Song.
Documentation of The Spiral of Time exhibition at The Australian Centre for Photograph, 2013.
It kept looking at me. This owl perched on the window still. It was night. And I was in my cot as a toddler looking back at it through the bars of the cot's wall. Unless I am mistaken this is the first memory I have of my childhood in Wauchope in 1947.
Paging Mr Hitchcock is a performance video shot with a Red Epic camera in a studio, where the artist addresses Alfred Hitchcock and the decisive impact his cinema had on him.
Shipwreck is one of Conomos' most overtly existential works. The title comes from Orson Welles and Charles de Gaulle. Welles quoted de Gaulle's remark on old age in an interview recorded shortly before Welles' death.
A homage to Mark Rothko, and also in the long take cinema tradition (specifically Jean-Marie Straub and the late Daniele Huillet's Too Early, Too Late ), a landscape video about the 'disappearing' lake located outside Canberra, Australia. This work is in two versions; Installation and Essay (forthcoming).
A video essay on the new 'technological' sublime in every day life.
An homage to Nam June Paik TV Buddha series, this video sculpture represents Ned Kelly as Australia's first 'cyborg' outlaw.
Smoke in the Woods is an autobiographical meditation on exile, memory and time. This lyrical sound collage deals with the author's 'milk-bar childhood' memories of 50s Sydney and of the Greek island of Kythera – whose inhabitants have travelled to Australia since the nineteenth century.
A three-channel video photo and neon installation dealing with the Diasporic Greek reflections on his childhood, cinema and the visual arts.
Autobiographical performance about the artist's childhood in a milk bar at Tempe and his ancestral forbearers from the Greek Island of Kythera.


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Any player/Any era: Gene Tenace
Editor's note: Please welcome another "Any player/Any era" from Albert Lang.
What He Did: You mean aside from being born Fury Gene Tenace?
Well, he finished his 15-year career with a .241/.388/.429 line with 201 HRs, playing primarily catcher and first base. He appeared in 846 games at catcher (.245/.396/.437) and 582 at first (.242/.382/.428).
His .388 career OBP is tied for the 33rd best by a right handed batter (min. 5,000 PA) in MLB history. He walked 984 times, the 41st most by a righty. He had six seasons of 100+ walks, the 20th most seasons of 100+ walks in baseball history. (The above from the SABR Baseball List & Record Book, 2007).
All of that and Tenace didn't become a regular until he was 26 in 1973 (shades of Jorge Posada?). From 1969-1972 Tenace served primarily as Dave Duncan's back-up (a no-hit, lead-the-staff kind of guy). However, with Duncan batting .163/.200/.302 in August of '72, Tenace was given the starting job down the stretch and throughout the play-offs.
While Tenace batted miserably in the ALCS, his one hit drove in the winning run in the deciding game. Then he hit .348/.400/.913 in the World Series, including homers in his first two World Series at bats (the first player to do so). He earned the MVP (and first of four World Series rings). Duncan was embroiled in a contract dispute during the following off-season and subsequently traded.
And that's how you take over a starting catching job: brute force! Tenace did split time at catcher and first over the next few years, which would serve as his peak. From 1973-1980 (including four seasons in San Diego's cavernous ballpark), Tenace averaged 147 games with a .241/.391/.434 line and 21 HRs per year. During that time, Tenace accumulated 39.9 WAR (Fangraphs), tied with Bobby Bonds for the 16th most among hitters during that stretch.
When it was all said and done, Tenace's career looks somewhat similar to Adam Dunn. Dunn has 365 HRs (certainly more than Tenace) but a .243/.374/.503 line (surprisingly a worse OBP than Tenace). If you translate Dunn's line to the 1975 Oakland Athletics, he would have 347 HRs and a .234/.362/.484 line. Tenace…just about Adam Dunn as a catcher.
In addition, Tenace's 47.4 career WAR (Fangraphs) is 17th all time for a catcher (and that includes the likes of Brian Downing, Buck Ewing and others (who might not qualify at catcher) ahead of him). Certainly, his contemporaries, Ted Simmons and Johnny Bench, had better careers, but that shouldn't take away from Tenace, much the same that Alan Trammell shouldn't have been hurt by playing during the same era as Cal Ripken and Barry Larkin.
Era he might have thrived in: If ever there were a player from an older era that would have thrived in the "modern" game, it's Tenace. For that reason, I'm putting him in the early part of the 2000s. If you place his numbers on the 2001 Oakland Athletics, his career line would be .270/.424/.475. His 1975 season, translated, would be a masterpiece: .269/.412/.486 with 31 HRs. Indeed, during his prime, he would have posted OBPs over .400 ever year but his translated 1974 season (his OBP on the 2001 A's would have been a measly .398).
Why: The Oakland Athletics were perennial contenders from 2000-2006. However, they didn't have a serviceable catcher until Ramon Hernandez blossomed in 2004. Tenace would have made Hernandez expendable (and trade-able) in a meaningful way.
Replacing Hernandez in 2001 (when Hernandez batted just .254/.316/.408) with Tenace would have improved an already lethal line-up. Could you imagine a team sending out: Johnny Damon/Gene Tenace/Jason Giambi/Eric Chavez/Miguel Tejada/Jermaine Dye/Jeremy Giambi/Terrence Long/Frank Menechino? That line-up would have no holes and include two players with .400+ OBPs.
Really, if you think about it, Tenace could have been the face of Moneyball.
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Posted on January 26, 2012 Author howardCategories MLB
23 thoughts on "Any player/Any era: Gene Tenace"
Adam Darowski says:
Here's the thing.
Tenace actually makes the Hall of wWAR. He's not "holy crap I'm going to sacrifice Jack Morris if he's not inducted", but he's damn close. The thing is, if his value was actually appreciated, there's no doubt he would have been a Hall of Famer. Project his production out to a longer career and you simply can't keep him out. That would have happened if he played in the last decade.
Gene Tenace was screwed.
Interesting what you say about Dave Duncan. Total Zone doesn't support the defensive reputation, which is probably a problem. But maybe there's something to his defensive reputation, since he has been leading pitching staffs as a coach (and is even being talked about as possibly the first Hall of Fame pitching coach).
@Adam
I don't know that TZ not supporting a catcher really matters. For the most part, a "good defensive catcher" does things that TZ doesn't even pretend to measure (i.e. calling the game, handling the pitcher, and pitch framing). TZ (and every other defensive system, for that matter) is woefully inadequate when it comes to catcher defense. We just haven't figured out quite how to quantify some things yet. Either that, or we have, they're all just noise, and you're right. But I'm less inclined to that position. Overall, it can't be more than probably 10-20 runs a season we're talking about, and even those kind of numbers would be for extreme outliers. But still, there's work to be done on catchers, so I'm not sure I'd just rule out the opinion of Duncan that was widely held at the time. And, as you pointed out, his expertise as a pitching coach may, in fact, support that theory.
By my own WAR weighting system, I have Tenace well ahead of Brian Downing, and ahead of Buck Ewing, as well (although I give the caveat that I use The Baseball Gauge's WAR, and not rWAR like Adam does). I have Tenace at (statistically) #12 overall, though if you include Josh Gibson and give Roy Campanella Negro League credit, I would move Tenace down. Still, I don't think top-15 is unreasonable for him, and that's pretty remarkable. I have him right below Joe Torre and Ted Simmons, and right ahead of Jorge Posada and Bill Freehan.
Vinnie says:
Just for fun, run his numbers again with the 50 A's in Philly, or the 56 A's of Kansas City. Those would have been equally good times for him to have played in and with the numbers he projects, would have gotten him even more notice.
Sorry for the delay in responding to the comments and thank you so much for reading and commenting. Was at my fiance's house last night and her computer doesn't work so well (specially, you cant really hit the numbers 1 or 5 or the letter p)
@Adam – Yeah that Dave Duncan line was backed up by nothing by anecdotes from the time and his reputation as a hitting coach since then. I'm not overly in tune with all the defensive metrics (havent worked with them enough at all) and especially the catcher nuances.
I did write a bit about contemporary catcher def for the Platoon Advantage (http://www.platoonadvantage.com/2011/12/matt-wieters-awesome-catcher.html), but that's about as far as my knowledge goes.
@Dave – thanks for the comment. I agree that you can make an argument for Tenace to be anywhere in the 12 – 17 range of best catchers all time, which is incredibly impressive. I must say I had no idea who he was until I participated in Graham's 50 best players not in the Hall. Then I looked at his career and was shocked I had never heard of him.
I hear he's going to be at A's fan fest, hopefully some younger fans will learn about him.
@Vinnie – On the 1950 Athletics, Tencace would have had a .274/.428/.482 career line, for the '56 KC A's, he would have had a .266/.419/.473 career line.
Not altogether different from his "contemporary" A's line. I do think he would have been more suited for the previous decade in terms of attaining accolades. Certainly, his skill set plays in any era.
Albert. Try running him on say the 50 Red Sox. His numbers would be staggering for a catcher and would have made him a certain hall of famer.
David, yes… I probably wasn't clear about the shortcomings of TZ (and defensive metrics as a whole) with some aspects of catching. I'm still trying to make sense of this data from Sean Smith's Catcher Game calling runs (which are not yet included in rWAR).
My system ranks catchers like:
1. Bench
2. Rodriguez
3. Carter
4. Fisk
5. Piazza
6. Berra
7. Dickey
8. Cochrane
9. Ewing
10. Simmons
11. Torre
12. Mauer (already)
13. Munson
14. Hartnett
15. Tenace
16. Posada
17. Bennett
18. Freehan
19. Campanella (obviously, would be higher but this only includes MLB stats)
20. Bresnahan
So, you clearly are a bit more bullish on Tenace than I am (or, I should say, a combination of Rally and I are).
@Adam – impressive list there. I'm a little surprised Tenace ends up on top of Posada. Guess they both are hampered by late starts to careers. I do see Tenace and Munson as incredibly similar players. With all the consideration that Munson gets for the Hall (and I understand a lot of that, rightly, has to do with sentiment), Tenace should be right along with him.
@Vinne – Tenace on the 1950 red Sox: .290/.448/.513
Munson gets an extra boost from me because he was pretty much exclusively a catcher.
Catching does have a positional adjustment in WAR. That gives them an extra boost for the time spent ON the field. I add an adjustments to make up for the facts that:
– catchers play in fewer games in a season
– catchers play in fewer games in their careers
Per season, I do this by having a lower WAE and WAM baseline for seasons spent primarily as a catcher. For the career, I have a lower Hall of wWAR induction level (that I then apply to the catcher based on the percentage of their games they played as a catcher).
Munson caught 90% of his games. Tenace caught 57%. That's basically where the difference comes from.
That is a good point, comparing Munson's and Tenace's actually catching appearances does give Munson a nice and deserved nod.
I forget that Tenace sort of split time…not sure why i forget given i wrote it in like the second paragraph! 🙂
Other "90% catchers" on my list above include Cochrane (98%), Campanella (97%), Dickey (95%), Hartnett (90%), Bennett (90%), and Carter (90%). Freehan and Fisk had 89%.
In case you're curious, here are my catcher rankings:
8. Hartnett
15. Parrish
16. Campanella
17. Ewing
19. Porter
I do not adjust for time spent at the position, which will make a big difference (especially for a guy like Munson). Second, these are my objective rankings. Some of them are so close, (i.e. Carter (52.5) and Berra (52.3)) that I'd be inclined to do some moving around were I to add subjective rankings into it. Third, I add the caveat that I used a different WAR system than Adam to do my rankings.
Fourth and finally is by far the biggest difference. I rank peak extremely heavily. By BBGauge WAR, Carter's top four seasons (8.2, 7.5, 7.1, 6.7) handily outrank Berra's (7.1, 6.7, 6.6, 6.5). While Berra's better the rest of the way, this different is large enough to cause Carter to be at the top. Additionally, this is what drops Carlton Fisk way down my rankings to #7, which is lower than I've seen anywhere else, and lower than I would have gone subjectively. But regardless, what I have so far.
Actually, that leads me to add a fifth caveat. I just embarked on this system yesterday, and it could probably use some tweaking. So I'm not 100% sure about it yet, but I'm pretty pleased with what I have. Anyway, enjoy!
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When I did this project, I only took 500 players to start, so there are a lot of players who aren't included (also keep that in mind – theoretically, there are quite a few guys lower on the list who could be bumped by someone I didn't include in my initial survey). I should have mentioned that above, as well.
Oh, and by the way, I have Joe Mauer at #21, just missing the list.
Graham Womack says:
@David — interesting list, though there's no way I'd take Darrell Porter or Roger Bresnahan over a healthy Joe Mauer.
Two things, Graham…
This is Porter's ENTIRE career vs Mauer up to this point. On a rate basis, I bet both of us have Mauer as the best catcher ever.
Second, Porter is pretty underrated. I have him as my #21.
@Graham
I agree. I wouldn't take either of them over a Babe Ruth clone born in the 1980s, introduced to modern fitness techniques, taught to switch-hit, and raised to catch. But then again, we should probably limit the discussion to things that actually exist. 🙂
Too harsh? Probably. But I lived in Minnesota for 6 baseball seasons (2005-2010), and I'm married to a pretty hardcore Twins fan, and they're my second favorite team. Mauer's best three seasons can hang with any catcher in the game's history. Once you get beyond that, though, it's a sad history of injury and disappointment. Frankly, I hope they move him full-time to 1B this year. It'll be a loss for the catcher position, but it'll only help Mauer and the Twins.
Agree with Adam, though. Mauer only needs a couple more years to pass Bresnahan – actually, probably one would do it. When he's all said and done, if Mauer rates as a catcher, he'll go down as one of the top 10 ever. I just don't think he's there yet.
Clark Addison says:
Loving the Tenace Love!
Shocked that I-Rod isn't a consensus Top 5.
(and I shall have to look at Bill Dickey and Gary Carter again…)
FWIW, my top catchers would be:
I-Rod
iazza
Dickey
and so on, but i'd definitely defer to Adam's amazingly in-depth analysis
@Clark
Actually, I was a little surprised at where I-Rod fell, too. But, according to the Baseball Gauge, Rodriguez's best season was worth 5.8 WAR – tied with Buck Ewing for the worst top season among any of the top 20 catchers. And it has him with only 3 seasons of 5 or more WAR, which is tied with many catchers, but nowhere near the peaks of Bench, Carter, Berra, Dickey, etc. Basically, he rates as high as he does because he's been a +WAR player every year, and he's played for a long time. Subjectively, I agree with you – I would have put him in my top 5 for sure, probably top 3. But it's not like any of the guys he's ranked behind here are slouches, so I'm not altogether unhappy with the way things have turned out. Again, if I WERE to use any subjective factor, I would probably bump him up at least one spot (the margin between him and Hartnett is fairly thin as it is) – possibly more than one. But #6 is probably as high as I could comfortably move him, without feeling like my objective rankings were a complete sham.
@Albert
Looks like a pretty solid list. I mean, I would definitely encourage you to give Mickey Cochrane a more serious second look, but your list is solid. Also it looks like there may be a bit more emphasis on overall career value than on peak (otherwise I don't see how Fisk gets so high) than I would use, but it's a solid list. The top 10 or say catchers are ALWAYS going to include at least 6 or 7 of the same guys, so there's not really too much to argue about. Question, though: are these just subjective rankings? Or do you have a system in place which gives you a mathematical ranking? It doesn't matter either way, but I would be curious to see what you do if you use a system.
@David – that was just a quick subjective rundown of guys. It is by no means scientific, just a short hand from my viewpoint.
That said, i do value longevity and believe it is a skill. it's incredibly hard to be good at baseball, i cant fathom how hard it is to remain at a superior level while aging — i'm also a huge Cal Ripken fan, so there's that. So, i dont tend to value peak as much as others, it's great to be dominant, and awe-inspiring, but i just think of guys like Dale Murphy, I'd prefer a steady brilliance, personally.
But it's incredibly hard to fault either of your lists, you are more the experts on that subject than I.
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At the present time there is insufficient evidence to recommend levetiracetam compared with phenytoin regarding efficacy in preventing early post-traumatic seizures and toxicity.
Use antiepileptic drugs short-term for the prevention of early seizures in patients who are at high risk and in whom seizures present a threat because of elevated intracranial pressure, systemic injury, or other reasons.
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ENLS 2017 – Use of prophylactic AEDs is indicated if seizures accompany the presentation, patient has severe TBI (GCS<9) and/or patient has an abnormal CT scan. AEDs should be stopped after 7d if there is no clinical or EEG seizure activity.
Start prophylactic AEDs perioperatively in patients without history of seizures who undergo brain tumor resection. Taper AEDs post-operatively if patient remains seizure-free. Long-term seizure prophylaxis is not required.
AED prophylaxis associated with reduced risk of early seizures in patients with CVT (especially supratentorial lesions and seizure at presentation). Start seizure prophylaxis only for patients with both seizures at presentation and supratentorial lesions s.a. edema, infarction or hemorrhage on admission head CT or brain MRI.
Prophylaxis is not required for single early symptomatic seizure with CVT in the absence of a supratentorial lesion. Seizure prophylaxis is not required for patients who have focal cerebral lesions without seizures.
Some advocate prophylaxis for all patients with CVT because of moderately high incidence of seizures during acute phase of the disease.
Seizure prophylaxis in the setting of unsecured aneurysm is reasonable, given low risk associated with AED vs potential deleterious effects of seizures on an already dysautoregulated brain.
Evidence from large case series suggest that AED exposure to phenytoin may be associated with worse neurologic and cognitive outcome after SAH.
Based on location of blood, lower impetus to start AEDS in perimesencephalic bleed without cortical layering, but higher in patients with poor neurologic grade, unsecured aneurysm and associated ICH.
AED not necessary to continue after clipping, especially those without acute seizures who present with a good grade.
Do not start AED after a single seizure after stroke, especially if provoked by factors that resolve.
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Hospital Revenue Cycles Showing Strength But Risks Include Denials
New Advisory Board benchmark survey reveals improving cash flow and rising challenges with reimbursement and appeals
Nov 14, 2017, 12:00 ET
WASHINGTON, Nov. 14, 2017 /PRNewswire/ -- Hospitals and health systems have been improving important portions of their revenue cycle performance over the past two years but face rising risks from increased denial writeoffs, bad debt, and inefficiencies revealed by their persistently high costs to collect, according to Advisory Board's latest Revenue Cycle Survey.
Notably, a median 350-bed hospital would have lost $3.5 million to increased denial writeoffs from health care payers over the past four years, the benchmarks show. "Across the revenue cycle as a whole, the benchmarks are encouraging and yet show the risks of complacency," said Jim Lazarus, National Partner, Technology at Advisory Board. "Hospitals are facing a combination of reimbursement pressure and a recent acceleration in costs that has outpaced revenue growth, so institutions need to ensure they are receiving payment commensurate with the services they deliver."
The biennial survey of hospital benchmarks shows mixed results across four critical performance indicators:
Denials claw back margins: Hospitals wrote off as uncollectable 90% more denials than six years ago, a difference of $3.5 million for a median 350-bed hospital. The downstream picture also poses challenges: The median for successful denial appeals for hospitals fell from 56% to 45% for commercial payers over the past two years and from 51% to 41% for Medicaid. For Medicare and Medicare Advantage, the rate of successful hospital appeals increased from 50% to 64%. These challenges are likely to persist as an increasing number of denials are based on medical necessity rather than technical or demographic error.
"With denials volume increasing not just for commercial payers but especially for Medicare Advantage, health systems need strategies to address denials proactively," said James Green, National Partner, Consulting at Advisory Board. "The wide range of denials performance among health systems—spanning 3% of net patient revenue between high and low performers—amounts to a $10 million swing for a median 350-bed hospital. Appeals are becoming increasingly difficult, so health systems should focus on approaches such as improved documentation and authorization processes."
Cash flow accelerates but also hints at concerns: In the best news for hospitals and health systems, median performance for net accounts receivable days improved by 8% from 2015 to 2017 (and by 21% since 2006). But these gains may be partially due to writeoffs and other factors that could reduce accounts receivable but pose other challenges for the institution.
Coverage expansion has been reducing bad debt but is offset by the overall growth in patient deductibles: Hospitals in states with Medicaid expansion produced better performance on bad debt but the rise of high-deductible health plans has led to an increase in unpaid patient obligations across all states, regardless of whether the state had Medicaid expansion. This calls for an increased focus on patient collections, especially at the point of service (POS).
The median for collections at POS has risen from 0.24% of net patient revenue to 0.80% over the past six years. For a 350-bed hospital, this is equivalent to increasing collections from $800,000 to almost $3 million. Organizations that collect a higher percentage at POS tend to offer patient discounts for full payment upfront, resulting in a 90% increase in POS collections compared to organizations that do not.
Substantial running room to reduce cost to collect remains at many organizations: The median cost to collect remained flat at 3.0% over the past four years, which may seem like an accomplishment as overall hospital expenses grew by 7.5% in 2017, according to Moody's Investor Service. But costs to collect remain higher than historical benchmarks from 6 years prior. Furthermore, driving down these costs takes on greater importance given the softening hospital margin trends observed in the past 12 months. Despite significant consolidation across the industry in the past two years, many systems are yet to realize the advantage of "centralizable" revenue cycle functions, and are likely missing opportunities to drive down costs and capitalize on knowledge and information sharing across facilities.
The 2017 benchmarks indicate a reduction in centralization of revenue cycle functions revenue compared to the 2008 survey. "While, for example, patient access is difficult to centralize, other functions present good opportunities, such as coding, billing, collections, denials, and payer contracting, especially given their high operational costs for these functions," said Christopher Kerns, Executive Director, Research at Advisory Board.
Given the combined complexity of these challenges—added to the wide further range of responsibilities for Chief Financial Officers— Kerns advises health system financial executives consider delegating oversight of the revenue cycle to a vice president.
Advisory Board honored for market leadership
Recently, Advisory Board was named the No. 1 firm for a revenue cycle category by Black Book for the third year in a row. In 2016 and 2017, Advisory Board led for end-to-end software and technology for hospitals with 100-200 beds and in 2015 for reimbursement, insurance processing and payer management for hospitals with fewer than 200 beds.
In the biennial Revenue Cycle Survey, Advisory Board surveyed senior acute care hospital and health system executives at 90 hospitals and health systems, mostly nonprofit, and nearly 300 organizations provided data through Advisory Board Technologies. The survey is disseminated and analyzed every two years; the previous survey was in 2015. For more information, visit www.advisory.com/rcbenchmarks.
About Advisory Board
Advisory Board is a best practices firm that uses a combination of research, technology, and consulting to improve the performance of 4,400+ health care organizations. As the health care business of The Advisory Board Company (NASDAQ: ABCO), Advisory Board forges and finds the best new ideas and proven practices from its network of thousands of leaders, then customizes and hardwires them into every level of member organizations, creating enduring value. For more information, visit www.advisory.com.
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Sexto Júlio Frontino (;   – ) foi um engenheiro e senador romano nomeado cônsul sufecto duas vezes, a primeira em 73 com um colega desconhecido e a segunda para o nundínio de fevereiro de 98 com o imperador Trajano, e eleito cônsul ordinário em 100, novamente com Trajano. Foi um vitorioso general no reinado de Domiciano, comandando as legiões romanas na Britânia e nas fronteiras do Reno e do Danúnbio. Apesar disto, Frontino é mais conhecido para o mundo pós-clássico como um autor de tratados técnicos, especialmente "De Aquaeductu", sobre os aquedutos de Roma.

Carreira
Em 70, Frontino participou da supressão da revolta na Renânia e depois recebeu a rendição de  língones. Entre esta data e sua nomeação como governador da Britânia no lugar de Quinto Petílio Cerial, poucos anos depois, Frontino foi nomeado cônsul sufecto, provavelmente em 73. Durante seu mandato, subjugou os siluros de Gales do Sul e, acredita-se, contra os brigantes. Ele foi sucedido por Cneu Júlio Agrícola, sogro do famoso historiador Tácito, em 77. Birley acredita que "é justo especular" que Frontino estava com Domiciano durante sua campanha na Germânia Magna em 83. Uma inscrição encontrada em Hierópolis, na Frígia, assim como diversas moedas em Esmirna atestam que ele foi procônsul da Ásia em 86.

Em 97, Frontino foi nomeado superintendente dos aquedutos de Roma (curator acquarum) pelo imperador Nerva, um cargo restrito a pessoas de grande renome e reputação. Ele também era membro do prestigioso colégio dos áugures. No ano seguinte, Frontino foi cônsul sufecto novamente e, em 100, foi eleito cônsul, as duas vezes com Trajano. Birley nota que "esta honra excepcional sublinha a alta estima na qual el era tido e sugere além disto que Trajano tinha um débito a pagar". Frontino faleceu em 103 ou 104, uma data baseada na correspondência de Plínio, o Jovem, a seus amigos contando que havia sido eleito para o colégio de áugures no lugar de Frontino, que havia morrido.

Família
Por causa da falta de um titulus honorarius e de um sepulcralis, não existem informações sobre a vida de Frontina, o nome de seus pais ou de sua esposa. Somente alguns detalhes podem ser inferidos em menções em outros lugares. Acredita-se que ele seja originário da Gália Narbonense e era de uma família equestre. A partir da nomenclatura do nome de Públio Calvísio Rusão Júlio Frontino, um alto magistrado (possivelmente cônsul sufecto) em 84, pode-se inferir que Frontino tinha uma irmã, mãe de Rusão Frontino. Sabemos também que ele teve pelo menos uma filha, que se casou com Quinto Sósio Senécio, cônsul em 99 e 107, e mãe de Sósia Pola, que se casou com Quinto Pompeu Falcão.Descende dele a família Brianti ou Briante, que passou séculos na Bretanha, até a parte dos Brianti ter-se estabelecido no Norte da Itália, onde participou da pequena nobreza da região. Os Briante permaneceram na França, tendo forte ligação com os Duques d'Aumont e Marqueses de Rochebaron. Há também um ramo no Mónaco, cuja principal personalidade é o bilionário Gildo Pastor (1910-1990), que possuía uma fortuna estimada em 20 bilhões de euros. A família Brianti, da Itália, também deu origem à nobre família Fabris, importante no comércio de ferro entre Itália e Áustria na Idade Moderna.

Fraude e roubo
Uma das primeiras funções que ele realizou quando foi nomeado superintendente das águas foi preparar mapas do sistema para que pudesse avaliar sua condição antes de realizar qualquer manutenção. Ele afirma que muitos haviam sido negligenciados e já não trabalhavam mais na capacidade plena. Ele estava especialmente preocupado com o desvio de água por fazendeiros e comerciantes inescrupulosos. Eles inseriam canos no canal dos aquedutos para coletar água para fins particulares. Por isso, ele realizou uma meticulosa pesquisa sobre os volumes de entrada e saída de cada aqueduto e investigou as discrepâncias. Inscrições em canos de chumbo com o nome do proprietário eram utilizadas também para evitar este tipo de furto de água. Frotino conhecia bem a obra seminal "De Architectura", de Vitrúvio, que menciona a construção e manutenção de aquedutos e publicada no século anterior. Ele inclusive faz referência a uma possível influência de Vitrúvio sobre os encanadores.

Sistema de distribuição
A distribuição da água dependia, de forma complexa, da altura do aqueduto ao chegar em Roma, da qualidade da água e do volume de descarga. Assim, água de baixa qualidade seria enviada para irrigação, jardins ou banheiros enquanto que apenas a melhor água era reservada para o consumo humano. Água de qualidade intermediária era utilizada pelos muitos banhos públicos e fontes. Frontino criticou a prática de misturar água de diferentes fontes e uma de suas primeiras decisões foi justamente separar a água de cada um dos sistemas.

Manutenção
Frotino estava muito preocupado com vazamentos no sistema, especialmente aqueles em encanamentos subterrâneos, que eram difíceis de localizar e consertar, um problema ainda hoje enfrentado por engenheiros modernos. Os aquedutos acima do solo precisavam de constante manutenção para que a estrutura de alvenaria se mantivesse em boas condições, especialmente os que corriam sobre estruturas arqueadas. Era essencial, segundo ele, manter as árvores à distância para que suas raízes não danificassem as estruturas. Ele revisou as leis existentes que governavam o estado dos aquedutos e também a necessidade de garantir sua aplicação.

Táticas militares
Frontino também escreveu um tratado teórico sobre a ciência militar, hoje perdido. Sua obra sobrevivente sobre assuntos militares, "Estratagemas" (), é uma coleção de exemplos de estratagemas militares da história grega e romana para uso pelos generais. Ele se baseia em sua própria experiência como general na Germânia na época de Domiciano, mas a similaridade entre as anedotas que ele conta e as versões de outros autores como Valério Máximo e Lívio sugere que ele tenha se baseado principalmente em fontes literárias. Um exemplo é o seguinte, sobre o controle das águas de um rio durante um cerco:

A autenticidade do quarto livro tem sido disputada. A última edição desta obra foi publicada em 1990 por R.I. Ireland.

Ver também

Bibliografia

Ligações externas

Iulii
Romanos antigos do século I
Romanos antigos do século II
Cônsules do Império Romano
Escritores da Roma Antiga
Escritores do século II
Escritores do século I
Governadores romanos da Britânia
Procônsules da Ásia
Áugures romanos
Aquedutos romanos
Engenheiros civis da Roma antiga
Escritores militares romanos
Curadores do Império Romano

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José Dariel Abreu Correa (Cruces, ) é um jogador de beisebol cubano que atua como primeira-base. Atualmente joga no Houston Astros. É reconhecido por sua qualidade ofensiva, destacando-se pela potência em suas rebatidas.

Abreu iniciou sua carreira profissional em sua terra natal, onde se consagrou como um dos melhores rebatedores do esporte, sendo escolhido o jogador mais valioso da Série Nacional de Beisebol em 2011. Desertou de Cuba em 2013 para ingressar na Major League Baseball, assinando um contrato de US$ 68 milhões com o Chicago White Sox, que viria a ser na época o acordo mais bem-pago da história da liga a um jogador estrangeiro.

Em seu primeiro ano nos Estados Unidos, foi escolhido por unanimidade como a revelação do ano da Liga Americana, sendo o primeiro novato a terminar a temporada entre os cinco melhores em todas as categorias da Tríplice Coroa. Em 2020, Abreu foi eleito o jogador mais valioso da liga. Também foi vencedor do Silver Slugger Award em três oportunidades, nos anos de 2014, 2018 e 2020.

O grande número de home runs marcados ao longo de sua carreira lhe rendeu o apelido de "Barry Bonds cubano."

Infância e juventude
José Abreu nasceu no bairro de Mal Tiempo, em Cruces, na província de Cienfuegos, no sul de Cuba. Morava junto de seus pais e avós em uma pequena casa de madeira. Seu pai José Oriol Abreu trabalhava com construção civil, e sua mãe Daysi Correa, era dona de casa.

Incentivado por seu pai, que também foi jogador de beisebol semi-profissional, começou cedo a prática do esporte, tendo como ídolo seu compatriota Orestes Kindelán. Aos sete anos de idade, já participou dos Jogos Escolares Nacionais e Juvenis, tendo tido a sua primeira experiência internacional na categoria entre 11 e 12 anos, em uma competição escolar disputada na Colômbia. Além da primeira base, Abreu também atuava como interbases.

Carreira

Cuba
Aos 16 anos, Abreu fez a sua estreia na Série Nacional, defendendo seu time local, os Elefantes de Cienfuegos, contra o Camagüey, no Estádio Cándido González. Logo em sua primeira temporada, estabeleceu o recorde de sequência de rebatidas para novatos da Série Nacional, com 31 jogos consecutivos. Atuou mais como defensor externo, principalmente na posição de campista direito.

No ano de 2005, em sua terceira temporada na Série Nacional, Pito, como é conhecido em Cuba, consolidou seu lugar no time de Cienfuegos, sendo o campista direito titular em 84 dos 89 jogos disputados durante a temporada regular e liderando o time em rebatidas (105) e corridas impulsionadas (64).

A partir de 2008, Abreu passou a ser utilizado primariamente como primeira-base, posição na qual se destacou na MLB. Com a chegada do técnico Iday Abreu em 2008–2009, Pito começa a mostrar sua força com o bastão ao liderar os Elefantes em home runs (19) pela primeira vez na carreira. No ano seguinte, Abreu novamente é o primeiro do time em home runs, com 30 - a segunda melhor marca em toda a Série Nacional. Com isso, o time de Cienfuegos avança para os playoffs pela primeira vez desde a chegada de Abreu.

Foi na temporada de 2010–2011 que Pito se consagrou como o melhor rebatedor da liga cubana, ao bater o recorde nacional de home runs em uma temporada, com 33. Seu desempenho elevou o time de Cienfuegos à melhor campanha da temporada regular, sendo eliminada nas semifinais para os Vequeros de Pinar del Rio, eventuais campeões da temporada. Abreu também liderou a liga em média de rebatidas, com .453.

Em 2011–2012, Abreu lidera a liga em média de rebatidas pelo segundo ano seguido, e apesar de conseguir mais home runs do que na temporada anterior (35), termina em segundo lugar no quesito. No mesmo ano, foi eleito para o time das estrelas da Série Nacional como o melhor primeira base. Em sua décima temporada pelos Elefantes, Pito lidera a liga em home runs pela segunda vez, com 19 rebatidas para fora do estádio.

Deserção
Em Cuba, o salário mensal de um jogador de beisebol era de cerca de US$20, muito diferente das cifras milionárias da Major League Baseball, que já cobiçavam o talento de Abreu após sua participação no Clássico Mundial de Beisebol. Junto de seus pais, esposa, irmã e cunhado, Pito deixou sua terra natal em uma viagem de barco de 12 horas rumo ao Haiti, em agosto de 2013. Abreu deixou seu filho Dariel Eduardo, então com dois anos, em Cuba. De lá, foi para a República Dominicana, se estabelecendo em Santo Domingo, e posteriormente, em Santiago, duas horas ao norte da capital dominicana, onde ficou por três meses sendo observado por olheiros da Major League Baseball.

Para deixar o seu país, Abreu teve o auxílio do haitiano Amin Latouff, que pagou US$ 160 mil para a viagem de barco, e enviou para a MLB um visto de trabalho supostamente registrado no Haiti. Em 13 de outubro de 2013, Latouff também forneceu um passaporte falso para Abreu, que relatou ter comido as páginas do documento durante um voo de Porto Príncipe para Miami, para evitar ser capturado na chegada aos Estados Unidos.

Houve também o envolvimento de dois ex-agentes de Abreu, Bartolo Hernandez e Julio Estrada, que receberam um pagamento de U$ 5,8 milhões do atleta.

Chicago White Sox
Em outubro, Abreu assinou por seis temporadas com o Chicago White Sox. Foi a maior contratação da história do time de Chicago, que desembolsou US$ 68 milhões pelo primeira-base cubano. No elenco dos White Sox, Abreu se juntou aos compatriotas Alexei Ramírez, Dayán Viciedo, e Adrian Nieto.

2014–2019
Em 31 de março de 2014, logo no primeiro arremesso que recebeu em sua carreira nos Estados Unidos, José Abreu rebateu uma bola rápida de Ricky Nolasco, do Minnesota Twins, em uma rebatida dupla. Em 8 de abril, Abreu acertou seus dois primeiros home runs na MLB, contribuindo para a vitória de seu time contra o Colorado Rockies por 15-3.

Em 25 de abril, ele marcou seu oitavo home run do ano contra Chris Archer, empatando o recorde de home runs para novatos em março e abril. Na mesma noite, Abreu fez sua terceira partida com mais de um home run, completando com um walk-off grand slam contra o Tampa Bay Rays. Isso deu a ele nove home runs em seu primeiro mês nas Major Leagues, ultrapassando o recorde de oito feito por Albert Pujols (2001), Carlos Delgado (1994) e Kent Hrbek (1982). Dois dias depois, Abreu quebrou o recorde de notavos em corridas impulsionadas no mês de abril com 31, e ampliou o recorde de home runs den ovatos para 10. Por seu desempenho, Abreu dividiu o título de Jogador da Semana da AL de 21 a 27 Abril com Kyle Seager do Seattle Mariners. Nesta semana, Abreu rebateu .310 com 5 home runs, 14 corridas impulsionadas e .862 de porcentagem de slugging.

No dia 18 de maio, Abreu foi movido para a lista de inativos por um período de 15 dias por uma tendinite em seu tornozelo esquerdo. Foi reintegrado ao elenco em 2 de junho para a partida contra o Los Angeles Dodgers. Em seu segunda vez ao bastão após o retorno, Abreu acertou home run de duas corridas contra o ás dos Dodgers, Clayton Kershaw.

Em 6 de julho, Abreu foi selecionado para o All-Star Game da MLB de 2014 junto aos companheiros de time Alexei Ramírez e Chris Sale. Até a parada para o jogo das estrelas, Abreu tinha uma aproveitamento de .292, com 73 RBIs, além de liderar a MLB em home runs com 29. Durante a temporada, Abreu foi escolhido tanto como jogador do mês como novato do mês em abril e julho, sendo que nunca um jogador havia ganho os dois prêmios no mesmo mês mais de uma vez em uma única temporada. Ao vencer o prêmio de novato do mês em junho, Abreu tornou-se o quarto jogador na história a ser escolhido como o melhor calouro do mês mais de duas vezes no mesmo ano.

Abreu terminou a temporada com 36 home runs, melhor marca da história de um jogador em seu primeiro ano com os White Sox. Ele foi eleito pela Sporting News como o novato do ano da Liga Americana. Venceu também o Silver Slugger Award da AL, se tornando o segundo primeira-base dos White Sox a ser condecorado com o troféu, após Frank Thomas. Abreu foi escolhido por unanimidade como o novato do ano da AL pela Baseball Writers' Association of America em 10 de novembro de 2014.

Em 2015, Abreu retornou à Cuba pela primeira vez após sua deserção, fazendo parte de uma viagem da MLB ao país caribenho em busca de refazer os laços da liga norte-americana com o regime comunista cubano. Durante os seis primeiros anos de contrato, Abreu manteve a alta produção ofensiva. Em todas as temporadas liderou o Chicago White Sox em corridas impulsionadas, sendo também o primeiro em aproveitamento em 2015 e 2018) e em três vezes, o líder em home runs (2015, 2017 e 2019).

Na vitória por 13 a 1 dos South Siders contra o San Francisco Giants em 9 de setembro de 2017, José Abreu se tornou o sexto jogador na história do clube a rebater pelo ciclo, o primeiro desde José Valentín em 2000. Em 2018, foi novamente escolhido para o All-Star Game e venceu pela segunda vez o Silver Slugger Award. No ano seguinte, é chamado para o All-Star Game pela terceira vez.

Em 22 de novembro de 2019, Abreu assinou um novo contrato com os White Sox, no valor de US$ 50 milhões por mais três temporadas.

2020–2022: MVP da Liga Americana
Nos dias 22 e 23 de agosto de 2020, em dois jogos contra os rivais locais, o Chicago Cubs, Abreu igualou um recorde da MLB ao acertar um home run em quatro vezes ao bastão consecutivas, sendo três na primeira partida em 22 de agosto, contra Kyle Hendricks, Rowan Wick, and Duane Underwood Jr., e, no dia seguinte, acertando novamente em seu primeiro duelo com o arremessador Yu Darvish. Em sua sétima temporada com os South Siders, Abreu igualou seu melhor aproveitamento da carreira na MLB e liderou a Liga Americana em slugging, RBIs (60), jogos disputados (60), rebatidas (76), rebatidas extrabase (34) e bases totais (148), além de terminar no top 10 em home runs (19, segunda melhor marca) e rebatidas duplas (15, nona melhor marca). No entanto, também foi o pior da liga pelo segundo ano consecutivo em caídas em queimada dupla (10), e o primeira-base com mais erros (5).

Abreu liderou os White Sox para a pós-temporada pela primeira vez desde 2008. Em 30 de setembro de 2020, acertou seu primeiro home run nos play-offs, contra Jesus Luzardo do Oakland Athletics. Mesmo com a eliminação na rodada de Wild Card, o desempenho do cubano na temporada regular lhe rendeu o título de MVP da Liga Americana. Abreu foi o quarto jogador dos White Sox a vencer o título, o primeiro desde Frank Thomas em 1994, se juntando à Thomas, Dick Allen, e Nellie Fox.

Em 2021, Abreu testou positivo para COVID-19 na chegada do spring training.

Em 14 de abril de 2021, contra o Cleveland Indians, Abreu conseguiu uma importante eliminação em cima de Josh Naylor na parte de cima da nona entrada, que garantiu um no-hitter para seu companheiro de time Carlos Rodon. Em uma partida contra o Kansas City Royals em 14 de maio, Abreu colidiu com o rebatedor Hunter Dozier, sofrendo uma contusão facial, laceração e uma lesão no joelho. Apesar dos machucados, Abreu estava em campo no dia seguinte, e dois dias após a lesão, garantiu a vitória contra os Royals com um walk-off contra Wade Davis.

Ainda em 2021, o Chicago White Sox enfrentou os Yankees em uma partida comemorativa em Dyersville, Iowa no dia 12 de agosto, no mesmo local onde fora gravado o filme Field of Dreams. José Abreu foi o responsável por acertar o primeiro home run de uma partida da MLB na história do estado de Iowa.

Abreu manteve os bons números na temporada de 2021, liderando o time mais uma vez em corridas impulsionadas (117) e home runs (30), embora seu aproveitamento tenha caído para .261. O cubano caiu de produção em 2022, no que seria sua última temporada em Chicago. Apesar de fechar o ano como o jogador com mais rebatidas pelo White Sox (183), seu número de home runs caiu pela metade da temporada anterior.

Houston Astros
Após nove anos em Chicago, Abreu assinou um contrato de US$ 58,5 milhões por três anos com os Astros, substituindo Yuli Gurriel.

Seleção Cubana

Abreu foi pré-convocado para representar Cuba no Clássico Mundial de Beisebol de 2009, mas ficou de fora da seleção final. Ele fez parte do elenco cubano campeão no Torneio World Port e na Copa do Mundo de 2009, como reserva de Ariel Borrero na posição de primeira-base. Foi o titular da posição na Copa Intercontinental em 2010, na qual Cuba sagrou-se campeã pela 11ª vez. No mesmo ano disputou o Campeonato Mundial de Beisebol Universitário, sendo escolhido o melhor primeira-base da competição.

Abreu foi convocado por Alfonso Urquiola para a disputa dos Jogos Pan-Americanos de 2011. Em Guadalajara, acertou três home runs em cinco jogos e conquistou a medalha de bronze. Também integrou o time vice-campeão na Copa do Mundo realizada no Panamá, na qual teve uma média de rebatidas de .475.

No Clássico Mundial de Beisebol de 2013, Abreu foi o principal destaque dos cubanos, com nove corridas impulsionadas e três home runs.

Estilo de jogo
Abreu é um power hitter, que embora não possua muita habilidade como defensor ou corredor, se destaca nas rebatidas potentes e com frequência consegue altos índices de slugging e home runs.

Estatísticas

Fonte: Baseball Reference

Prêmios

Equipe

Chicago White Sox
 Divisão Central da Liga Americana: 2019

Individuais

BBWAA

 Jogador Mais Valioso da Liga Americana: 2020
 Novato do Ano da Liga Americana: 2014

Liga Americana

 Silver Slugger (3): 2014, 2018 e 2020
 Hank Aaron Award (1): 2020
 All-Star (3): 2014, 2018 e 2019
 Novato do Ano: 2014
 Novato do Mês (3): abril, junho e julho de 2014
 Jogador do Mês (4): abril e julho de 2014, agosto de 2020 e agosto de 2021
 Jogador da Semana (6): 04/28/2014, 08/03/2015, 09/21/2015, 05/28/2017, 08/23/2020 e 05/30/2021

Baseball America

 Novato do Ano: 2014

Associação de Jogadores da MLB (MLBPA)

 Jogador do Ano (1): 2020
 Novato do Ano: 2014
 Chicago White Sox Heart and Hustle Award (1): 2022

MLB.com

 Novato do Ano: 2014

Sporting News

 Jogador do Ano (1): 2020
 Novato do Ano: 2014

Vida pessoal
É formado em Educação Física e é casado com Yusmary Hernandez, com quem tem um filho, Dariel Eduardo, nascido em 2010. Morava em Cienfuegos com sua esposa e filho em uma casa disponibilizada pelo Instituto Nacional de Deportes, Educación Física y Recreación de Cuba (INDER). Após a deserção do atleta, o órgão notificou a família de Abreu para que deixasse a residência. Abreu tinha uma grande relação de amizade com o compatriota Minnie Miñoso, ídolo dos White Sox na década de 1950 e integrante do Hall da Fama do Beisebol.

Em Cuba, é conhecido como Pito. O apelido lhe foi dado por seu tio: quando Abreu era criança, pedia para que o seu tio tocasse violão dizendo "ping la tala", mais tarde, reduzido apenas para "pito".

Ligações externas

 José Abreu - estatísticas e perfil no Baseball-Reference
 José Abreu - estatísticas e perfil no ESPN.com

Beisebolistas de Cuba
Chicago White Sox
Beisebolistas do Chicago White Sox
Beisebolistas do Houston Astros


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Georgia State Receives Insight Into Diversity's 2021 Higher Education Excellence in Diversity (HEED) Award
By Jeremy Craig, Communications Manager, Office of the Provost
Georgia State University has received Insight Into Diversity's 2021 Higher Education Excellence in Diversity Award, a national honor recognizing U.S. colleges and universities that demonstrate an outstanding commitment to diversity and inclusion.
Georgia State is one of the most diverse public universities in the United States, with a proven track record of programs and initiatives that prove that students from all backgrounds can succeed.
The university is implementing an ambitious action plan to make even further progress in diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI), following recommendations by the university's Task Force for Racial Equality last summer, and the implementation steering committee of the Next Generation of Faculty initiative.
"Georgia State is known as one of the most innovative universities in the country and seeks to become a national leader in all aspects of university life – including diversity, equity and inclusion," said Wendy Hensel, Provost and Senior Vice President for Academic Affairs. "While we have more work to do, we are honored to receive national recognition for our efforts and progress especially during the challenges of a pandemic and the national reckoning over racial injustice and inequality."
A few highlights of accomplishments over the past academic year include:
The university's Diversity's Dialogues Series, a program of conversations about DEI issues, including conversations between university administration, faculty, staff, and students about the campus climate, in addition to policing, the future of Atlanta, and other topics;
The new Center for Studies on Africa and Its Diaspora, center will support research and academic initiatives, artistic efforts and public programming, including exhibits, lectures and conferences, and advance policy proposals that target issues of concern to the African diaspora across the university and the broader community.
Continued growth of the Center for the Advancement of Students and Alumni, an effort to encourage promising undergraduates from underrepresented minority backgrounds to pursue graduate and professional degree programs;
Expansion of training programs and resources for DEI issues, including a centralized website providing university-wide DEI information, including a database of DEI programs and initiatives, event calendars, and a searchable library of books, policies, multimedia, procedures, and other resources;
Diverse Faculty Alliance (DFA) & Faculty affinity groups, bringing together faculty from similar backgrounds to network, share, and collaborate.
To read additional highlights, visit https://dei.gsu.edu/action-plan/ to access a progress report and to learn more about Georgia State's institutional DEI action plan.
"The HEED Award process consists of a comprehensive and rigorous application that includes questions relating to the recruitment and retention of students and employees — and best practices for both — continued leadership support for diversity, and other aspects of campus diversity and inclusion," said Lenore Pearlstein, publisher of INSIGHT Into Diversity magazine.
"We take a detailed approach to reviewing each application in deciding who will be named a HEED Award recipient. Our standards are high, and we look for institutions where diversity and inclusion are woven into the work being done every day across their campus."
INSIGHT Into Diversity magazine is the oldest and largest diversity publication in higher education today and is well-known for its annual Higher Education Excellence in Diversity (HEED) Award, the only award recognizing colleges and universities for outstanding diversity and inclusion efforts across their campuses. In addition to its online job board, INSIGHT Into Diversity presents timely, thought-provoking news and feature stories on matters of diversity and inclusion across higher education and beyond. Articles include interviews with innovators and experts, as well as profiles of best practices and exemplary programs. Readers will also discover career opportunities that connect job seekers with institutions and businesses that embrace a diverse and inclusive workforce. Current, archived, and digital issues of INSIGHT Into Diversity magazine are available online at insightintodiversity.com.
For more about diversity, equity and inclusion at Georgia State, visit https://dei.gsu.edu.
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By Caron Koll Oct 22, 2018 Green Building, Safety, Sustainability/Business Continuity
Are you procrastinating on assessing the risk of per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) at your facility? Don't hold off until a regulator (or worse, legal action) forces your hand! A "wait and see" approach could result in potential damages to your brand and investor relations.
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Antea Group is seeing a growing number of enforcement and legal actions focused on PFAS across the country taking companies by surprise.
The climate of environmental regulation has changed, and treating this emerging compound the same as other emerging contaminants (such as 1,4 dioxane, dioxins/ furans, perchlorate, and tributyltin) over the last two decades has proven to be problematic, chiefly because PFAS occurs with much greater frequency over a wide geography and in a wide range of release mechanisms. Because of the differences between PFAS and other contaminants, the regulators are also using more innovative approaches to assessing PFAS in the environment than for other past emerging contaminants
Select PFAS compounds, formerly thought safe, are now regulated at very low concentrations. Although manufacturers in the United States have switched formulations to use shorter chain PFAS which were thought to be less toxic, these shorter chain PFAS are now coming under more scrutiny. Manufacturers of stain- and water-repellent fabrics and textiles, nonstick products, polishes, waxes, paints, cleaning products, food packaging, and electronics may be subject to additional PFAS scrutiny. Specific manufacturing processes associated with PFAS include electroplating, fire-fighting foam production, and others. The use of firefighting foam at airports and military bases where fire training occurs has been found to represent a significant source of PFAS in groundwater, surface water, sediment, and fish.
Our advice, based on firsthand experience dealing with the business risks and litigation associated with PFAS, is to fully understand your business exposure (if any), conduct internal studies, and be prepared with data and records rather than getting blindsided.
Proactively assessing PFAS as part of your regular environmental program and EHS best practices helps you avoid negative public and media attention and puts you in a position of strength when working with local government and communities potentially less knowledgeable in PFAS fate, transport, and toxicity. Protect your operations and reputation and avoid unnecessary risk and liability.
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Council failed to re-home mother and autistic son after identifying problem with neighbours
Mother and son were exposed to noise and threatened by their neighbour who lived in the flat above
By Luke Haynes on July 23, 2018 in Community Care
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A mother and her autistic son suffered severe distress after a council placed them in temporary accommodation below antisocial neighbours, the local government and social care ombudsman has found.
During the two and a half months Miss X and her autistic son, Z spent in the property, they were found to be "exposed to noise and threatened by their neighbour" who lived in the flat above.
This caused Z, who was forced to move in with other family members, great anxiety and had negative effects on his behaviour.
Ignoring the signs
In October 2014, Brighton and Hove council accepted it owed Miss X the main housing duty, but the family was moved into temporary accommodation leased from a private landlord due to social housing pressures and put on a waiting list.
When the lease expired, the local authority placed Miss X and her son in a downstairs flat in the neighbouring council. Before moving into the new flat, the mother viewed it with an officer from the temporary accommodation team.
Miss X knew the property would not be suitable for her son after hearing a lot of noise from the property above. The officer also noted the neighbours "played very loud music", but the council decided to proceed with the offer.
An advisory contacted the council on behalf of Miss X after the family had moved in, requesting a statutory review of her accommodation. This prompted the council to carry out a suitability assessment, which concluded the property was not suitable for the needs of Miss X and her son.
During the assessment, the mother said the flat was unsuitable as the people upstairs "swore a lot" and there was no room for her son's sensory equipment. This meant she had to pay for storage.
Concerns expressed
In the months that followed, the housing officer discovered there was a nine-year history of antisocial behaviour and noise nuisance from the occupants above. The council also found there had been a noise order issued to the tenants above in the past 18 months.
Despite this, it continued to keep the family in the property as it waited for other accommodation to become available.
After further disruption, Z was forced to stay with his grandmother because the noise levels and stress were affecting his behaviour. This prompted Miss X to write to the council stating the move had made her son constantly anxious and had led to him wetting himself.
She added that his behaviour become more difficult to manage and he was self-harming by hitting and biting.
The family were transferred into more suitable accommodation two months after moving into the flat.
The ombudsman concluded Miss X and her son "suffered a serious injustice" due to the council's failure to provide them with suitable temporary accommodation.
Having "ample evidence" of the needs of the young child, the report said Brighton and Hove council should have known from the outset that the temporary accommodation arrangements would be unsuitable.
It added that, had the council followed up the serious concerns about the unsuitability of the property and made enquiries to the neighbouring council shortly after the viewing, Miss X and her son "would not have been put in this situation".
The report criticised the council's reliance on "the property owner's assurances" that the flat was without problems and "should have done more" to investigate after concerns were raised.
Significant stress
Michael King, local government and social care ombudsman, said: "While I appreciate the strain councils are under to find the right accommodation, particularly in areas of high property prices, they still need to ensure the suitability of the accommodation they are offering."
Brighton and Hove council has apologised to Miss X and has agreed to pay her £750 to recognise the injustice caused to the family.
The council has also agreed to pay Miss X £100 for the six months delay in reimbursing storage charges and a further £150 to recognise the time and trouble caused by the delay and poor handling of her complaint.
Housing pressures
Councillor Anne Meadows, chair of the council's Housing and New Homes Committee, said the council were "extremely sorry" for the distress caused to the family.
She added it would be take action to ensure lessons were learnt and explained the circumstances around the case.
"There is a shortage of temporary housing in the city and, while it is no excuse, there was particular pressure at the time of the complaint was made."
"A total of 180 homes we leased from a private landlord were no longer available to us and staff were working to find new homes for families from all those properties."
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In an additional twist on the Carlos Tevez saga, Fulham have submitted a claim for £700,000 in compensation from West Ham United because they finished below the Hammers in the season that the Argentine striker played at Upton Park.
The cash relates to the loss of so-called "merit money" that Fulham believe they missed out on because the 2006-07 campaign ended with them in 16th place, two points behind 15th-placed West Ham. They claim that, because of Tevez, they finished in a false position.
Fulham received £20.26m in merit money – the cash divided between the clubs from the television and broadcast deals brokered by the Premier League – with West Ham receiving £20.71m. The difference amounts to £450,000 – the extra cash they would have received in 2007 – but, confusingly, Fulham are understood to have submitted a claim for £700,000 which is the amount they would be due if the places were reversed this season.
The action was launched on Tuesday, the day after West Ham, who will fight it and have reacted with incredulity to the claim, announced they had reached an out-of-court settlement with Sheffield United of £20m, spread over the next five seasons, to end the Blades' long-running dispute over Tevez.
The settlement followed the arbitration judgment by the independent tribunal, chaired by Lord Griffiths, which decided that Tevez, whose signing had breached rules on third-party ownership, had had a decisive effect on the Blades being relegated and West Ham surviving that season.
West Ham, who had already been fined £5.5m by the Premier League and torn up Tevez's original contract, had rejected the claim and were furious they had no right to appeal or recourse to the Court of Arbitration in Sport. They decided to settle because they did not want to go before Griffiths again and could not afford a hefty lump sum payment given the financial plight of owner Bjorgolfur Gudmundsson.
In a statement on Tuesday, in the wake of the attempts by players, former Blades' manager Neil Warnock and Leeds United chairman Ken Bates to claim compensation, West Ham said they would "strongly resist any attempts to prolong this matter through the courts, both to protect our interests and those of the wider game".
Fulham have now lodged a formal legal claim but Wigan Athletic, who finished 17th that season, three points behind West Ham, made clear yesterday that, contrary to reports, they have not sought any further legal advice and do not intend to seek compensation for a "false league position".
The crucial piece of the ruling that Fulham have seized on is Griffiths' panel's judgment that they had "no doubt" that West Ham would have acquired "at least three fewer points" without Tevez. The panel claimed that in the last two games of that season Tevez "more likely than not" helped West Ham to achieve the three extra points that ensured they avoided relegation at the expense of the Blades.
If Fulham pursue their claim it may also require the establishment of yet another arbitration hearing as the case involving Sheffield United was a private arbitration.
The Premier League and Football Association are already carrying out a fresh inquiry into the Tevez affair but are not expected to mete out any further punishment.
As for the claims being pursued by Warnock, who is waiting for legal advice from the League Managers Association, and the players, West Ham are confident that they can successfully defend any action. Bates, who believes Leeds are entitled to windfall payments through three players he sold to the Sheffield club that season, is likely to pursue the Blades for the £500,000 in compensation he wants.
Source Jason Burt at The Independent
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